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About Me

Riding the adventures in life full steam ahead. Complex as they come, yet oh so simple at the same time. Playing hide and seek with myself because every time I lose me, I find myself anew and figure out something I didn't know before. Leading, following, speaking, listening, learning, relearning, sometimes stopping to smell the roses, sometimes picking one up along the way 'cause there's no time to slow down. One thing that keeps me ahead of the crowd? I spent the time to know myself before truly trying to know anyone else. Now, if only I didn't have to keep learning it again since we're all in that constant transitional state of change. However, I prefer that to becoming stagnant. High energy, life lover, and living in an anti-drama bubble that is near impenetrable. Gotta get me one of those time stopping machines so I can find the time to do everything I'd like (like sleep, oh how I miss sleep). Is there such a thing as a responsible party person? I like to think so, but I could just be dillusional. ;) Feel more at home at Burning Man than I do back in "normal" society. There's a hint or two for you...for more...guess you gotta ask some questions. Oh, right...and I'm a Sagittarius...dang crazy December people. ;)

My Interests

Dancing, Burning Man, Warping fragile minds, Basketball, Movies, Chillin w/ friends, Hiking, Dancing, Living life to it's fullest, Random acts of kindness, Being part of clan Shittalkwah, Getting off my lazy ass and learning Yoga, Skydiving, Global domination through benevolence, More Dancing. :)

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who accepts life for the beautiful thing that it is. Dancers and jokesters always welcome.

Music:

Psytrance, Jungle/DnB, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Rock, Oldies. More specifically, Infected Mushroom, Tool, Missy Elliott, Nate Dogg, Metallica, Hallucinagen, Sarah McLaughlin, Timbaland & Magoo, Tobal, Psynthetic, Dj Obu, DMX, Goo Goo Dolls, Aretha Franklin, and the list goes on.

Movies:

Blue Oyster Spiral Extended Remix

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For Die Hard Fractal Zoom Fans. Caution: Flashing!No matter how deep you go, there's always more.By popular demand, I have revisited this fractal zoom but this time I've added some animation so maybe you can see the objects better.In 1993, when i first made a poster of the image i call "blue oyster spiral," which is a zoom at about the 100 Billion X magnification level inside the Mandelbrot Fractal, it took 34 computers 3 days to render it. today, the same poster can be rendered on one typical PC in just a few hours.Of course, since the Mandelbrot Fractal is infinite in nature, i can still easily find spots i want to explore that take a present day computer months to calculate.I'm ambivalent about the fact that no computer will ever be powerful enough to let me see the infinite detail to be seen in there. On the one hand, there will always be more to see, every time i have access to more computing power. on the other, it will never be enough. oh well :-)Music: "Crazy (Karl G. Remix)" by Gnarls Barkley.Fractal: animated in much higher resolution than this with fractal extreme.Fractal Posters available athttp://kliman.com/fractals/index.htm Usual Suspects, Event Horizon, Seven, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Momento, Alice in Wonderland, Princess Bride, The Rock, Face Off, Shawshank Redemption, etc, etc.

Television:

T...V? That's one of those non-interactive computers right?

Books:

Snow Crash, The Miles Vorkosigan series, Catcher in the Rye, Wrinkle in Time, Sci-Fi stuff, usually whatever I get my hands on when I find the time.

Heroes:

All of my friends.

My Blog

I believe

Things I believe: I believe the culmination of events in the world today will prove interesting at the end of the Mayan calender (2012) I believe that everyone should dance at least once in their live...
Posted by Ari on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:56:00 PST

Drained and broken, the mental batteries are recharged

After a week of beating the crap out of myself both mentally and physically, I have returned from Burning Man. It was quite an experience this year, and although there were a few minor annoyance...
Posted by Ari on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:16:00 PST

The necessity of the positive progressive thought pattern

Warning: Today's rant may come across as preachy. My appologies...just remember it's nothing more than my opinion of how people should think. ;) As I was drifting off to sleep last ...
Posted by Ari on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:52:00 PST

Just FYI

The influx of blogs is a copy paste from another spot I've decided to stop posting on. I'm not actually going through that many phases at once. ;)
Posted by Ari on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:09:00 PST

Mind droppings!

So, I've been wondering lately why it's so damn hard to cope with change, even when it's necessary and a good thing. As an example, I've recently started trying to get back into shape. When your metab...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:50:00 PST

The balancing act

Always try to be as understanding as you are judgmental.It's a moral that popped into my head randomly last night as I was mulling over some conversations I'd recently had with various people at a par...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:47:00 PST

The joys of western medicine..

I never really had too much of an opinion about this until recently, when my friend contracted Hodgkin's disease, which is a form of lymphoma cancer. http://www.lymphomainfo.net/hodgkins/ is a decent ...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:44:00 PST

Upcoming turmoil

Today will probably be a short post as I'm not feeling particularly outgoing at the moment, but nonetheless my two cents are hitting the table.I'm sure I'll have plenty of follow up posts to this beca...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:42:00 PST

Here goes nothing (or something)

This all started recently as a random idea that cropped up in my head because I find myself slipping off to sleep or riding BART with numerous thoughts I feel spilling out of me but no where to put th...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:41:00 PST